Caroline Anne “Carrie” Rockwell Atwood (1834-1916)

Caroline Anne “Carrie” Rockwell Atwood

Birth

20 May 1834

Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, USA

Death

24 Mar 1916 (aged 81)

Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA

Burial

Mound Grove Cemetery

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Memorial ID

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1832

February 2: O.P Rockwell married Luana Hart Beebe.

April 6: Porter, his parents, and his younger brothers and sisters are present at the organization of the LDS Church

1833

July 20: Porter and his father were attacked by a mob at their ferry on the Big Blue River, Jackson County, Missouri.

Nov. 4: Missouri mob attacked the Rockwell Ferry at the Big Blue Settlement.

1834

January 31: Poter's first child, Emily Amanda Rockwell, born in Missouri.

October 31: Porter's home and its contents destroyed by Missouri mobocrats at the Big Blue Settlement.

November 7: Rockwell's family with hundreds of other forced from Jackson County Missouri and formed a refugee settlement n Clay County, Missouri. Named Far West.

1836

May 25: Daughter Caroline A. Rockwell, was born. Calculated.to be Far West, Clay County, Missouri.

August: Far West, Caldwell County was established settlement by the state specifically for the Mormans.

29 Dec 1836 Far West, Caldwell County was officially declared a County with Far West being it's seat.

1838

July 6, O.P. Rockwel ordained a Deacon at Far West, Missouri

By mid-1839, following the Missouri Mormon War, Mormons were driven from the state altogether, not to return to Jackson County or Missouri in significant numbers until 1867.